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M2M Biography :

M2M ( Marit Larsen & Marion Raven ) - Profiles

Marit Larsen
Full name: Marit Elisabeth Larsen
Birthday: July 1st, 1983
Place of birth: Lenskog, Norway
Height: 5'2" (157cm)
Eye Color: Green
Favorite Food: Chicken noodle soup
Favorite Drink: Water
Favorite Color: Dark red (like my guitar)
Favorite Music: Anything with acoustic guitar
Favorite Artists: Sixpence None The Richer, Robyn, Oasis, Hanson, Bic Runga, Big Bang, The Beatles and Eric Clapton.
Favorite Album: "Middle of Nowhere" by Hanson and "Chronicles" by Eric Clapton
Favorite Actor/Actress: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Katie Holmes
Favorite Movie: American Pie
Favorite TV-Show: Dawson's Creek
Favorite Book: Right now it's "Choices" by Abigail Reed
Favorite Game: Ludo
Favorite Sport: None in particular
Hobbies: Playing guitar, being with friends, writing songs
Turn Ons: Being on stage
Turn Offs: Airports
I love people who... respect me for who I am and believe in themselves
I hate people who... pretend they like me when they really don't
I admire: My mom
Personal Weakness: I worry too much
Proudest Moment: When my baby sister was born
Most Embarrassing Moment: One time during a show, I was supposed to take my microphone off the stand and start doing co-ordinated moves together with Marion. To my inconvenience, I had huge problems getting the microphone down and ended up getting really stressed out and messing up the routine and banging it into my head. It was awful!
If you could have any three wishes granted, what would you ask for:
1. I wish I could be wherever I wanted, whenever I wanted
2. I wish people will respond to our music so that we can making more records
3. I wish I could read other people's minds (or do I really....?)
If you could bring only three items with you to a deserted island, what would you bring: A guitar, a boat and a cell phone

Marion Raven
Full name: Marion Elise Ravn
Birthday: May 25th, 1984
Place of birth: Lenskog, Norway
Height: 5'7" (170cm)
Eye Color: Dark brown
Favorite Food: BBQ chips - haha
Favorite Drink: Fanta orange
Favorite Color: Purple (who would know)
Favorite Music: Everything from R&B to Rock, I am no big fan of Hard Rock though
Favorite Artist: Jennifer Brown
Favorite Album: "Vera" by Jennifer Brown
Favorite Actor/Actress: Christina Ricci!!
Favorite Movie: 6th sense
Favorite TV-Shows: I love cheesy tv-shows like 7th Heaven, I also love Friends. My favourite cartoons are South Park and Daria
Favorite Book: I like Danielle Steel
Favorite Game: ?
Favorite Sport: Soccer and volleyball
Hobbies: Music, drawing, friends and partying(!). Sit around the house all day in my PJ's
Turn Ons: Guys with cute behinds
Turn Offs: Begging like "Pleeeease!!"
I love people who... are themselves and don't try to act like someone else
I hate people who... always have to destroy everything and everybody
I admire: Anyone who is genuinely positive about everything
Personal Weakness: well... if I get mad at somebody I can really hold a grudge
Proudest Moment: Making "Shades of Purple"
Most Embarrassing Moment: Don't get me started... hehe
If you could have any three wishes granted, what would you ask for: Peace, love and maybe my own shopping center - haha
If you could bring only three items with you to a deserted island, what would you bring: A boat, a guy and my stereo, with lots of batteries and a cell phone would be nice

M2M - Biography:

This is a little biography that we wrote for all of you. Take your time to read it please. After all, we took our time to write it. We figured all the mumbo jumbo those Atlantic Records bios of M2M were just to boring to even skim through. So here's our version of how the M2M story goes.

Marit Elisabeth Larsen and Marion Elise Ravn were born in the early eighties in a small Norwegian town called Lørenskog. The two met at the age of five and became friends when they realized they shared a very similar interest: music. Marion had begun taking lessons in piano as a child and formed a pretend band called Hubba Bubba with Marit and her other friends. As young teenagers, Marit and Marion seperated from their friends and went to record their first album in Norway. It was a thematic album, meant for children. The album turned out to be a surprinsing hit and was even nominated for a Norwegian grammy. After their mediocre success, Marit and Marion began to write their own fresh breed of pop songs.

At the age of thirteen, Marion created her first song on her piano, the soft romantic ballad, Girl In Your Dreams. It was meant for a boy who wrote her heart in school. As soon as the managers from a recording label called Atlantic Records heard of Marit and Marion, they dediced to give them a shot at stardom and sign them. Marit and Marion headed off to the United States, for the first time, to record their debut album, which they decided to call, Shades Of Purple. Before the release of Shades of Purple, Marit and Marion needed to come forth to the public with a catchy and clever band name. They ran a contest on the internet at Alloy.com, asking fans to come up with a name for them. A girl on the site suggested the name, M2M. Favoring the name and so, Marit and Marion became M2M.

It was late summer of 1999 when Atlantic Records decided to bring M2M into the people's view. They released M2M's first single, Don't Say You Love Me, as the first single off of the popular Pokemon: The First Movie soundtrack. It became a huge top 40 hit and the marked only the beginning for M2M. In March of 2000, M2M released Shades Of Purple for the world to hear. Billboard acclaimed it the soundtrack of the spring and summer of 2000. After the first single, Don't Say You Love Me came the follow-up hits, Mirror Mirror, Pretty Boy, Everything You Do, The Day You Went Away, and Girl In Your Dreams. It wasn't too long until M2M became a huge hit even in Asia. In order to further promote the album, M2M toured in many different places around the world, as well as opening for the popular band, Hanson. They also played a gig on the tv show, One World.

Two years later, M2M released their anticipated 2002 sophomore album, The Big Room. It unveiled a much more elaborate and edgier side of M2M. The first rock-sounding single, Everything was a great way to justify M2M's drastic change in style and music. After Everything came What You Do About Me, Wanna Be Where You Are, and Don't. In the summer of 2002, M2M became the brief opener for singer Jewel's 2002 summer tour. Rocking the stages, M2M proved themselves to the audience, as well as the rest of the world, to be the most original, gorgeous, and talented girls in the business.